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Clifford D. May

Clifford D. May is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a columnist for The Washington Times and host of the “Foreign Podicy” podcast.

Many refuse even to name the enemy, pretending that energy security is one issue, airport security another, the war in Gaza a third and the conflict with Tehran a fourth.
The surviving members of the regime have played what they believe to be their trump card: targeting the production of oil by their Arab neighbors and preventing the flow of oil shipments through a body of water with two-mile-wide navigable shipping lanes.
Yet a motley crew on the left and right are not happy about the idea that national decline is a choice the president firmly rejects.
There were some fraught days when U.S. President Donald Trump was threatening to use a big stick to take the island away from the Danes, but the situation seems to have settled down.
Do you think that being incarcerated in a city that has a socialist mayor is any consolation for him? Is he feeling the collectivist warmth?
The good, the bad and the conspicuously absent.
Working to re-establish the caliphate for almost a century.
Germany, Britain and France make it harder to get a ceasefire in Gaza.
Syria’s endangered minorities deserve protection.
It’s not a warmed-over version of Obama’s fatally flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
Lord Roberts’ parliamentary report combats denial with evidence.
Never again will Israelis allow a “ring of fire” to burn on their nation’s borders